Few days back, we had created a custom page in salesforce wherein we were not using any salesforce control to show the record but some other JavaScript grid to show the records. Here we observed that while opening the Salesforce app menu, the menu overlapped with the grid that we had used. The menu works… Read More: Overlapping issue in Salesforce App Menu »
Sometimes we need to pass values to apex code or assign the controller properties in JavaScript. Here is the trick that we can use to set a value to an apex variable/properties from JavaScript code using <apex:inputTextarea> tag in Visualforce Page. <apex:inputTextarea id=”setDataStringValue” value=”{!setDataStringValue}” styleClass=”exampleDataToSetVariable” style=”display:none;”/> We will set the value ‘data’ in JavaScript function… Read More: Set controller variable/properties from JavaScript »
In our previous blog post “Transaction aborted: timeout error in Salesforce“, we had written that changing the timeout parameter in JSRemote call from Visualforce page can help avoid the timeout error issue. But occasionally even after increasing the timeout parameter, the timeout error appears for a couple of times due to the fact that sometimes… Read More: Number of Retries for JSRemote Call »
In one of our projects in force.com, we have been using the JS remote action calls many a time for custom reporting purpose. While testing, sometimes we face an issue and the error message displayed is “Unable to connect to the server (transaction aborted: timeout)”. This error occurs randomly and only sometimes. New Stuff: View Records… Read More: Transaction aborted: timeout error in Salesforce »
We have an object that holds some records and those records are not visible in any visualforce tab. In certain cases, the developer wants to see those records while doing the development in Force.com. There are tools available that can be used to see the records for any object. e.g. Eclipse, Force.com Explorer etc. Instead… Read More: View records without creating tab »
We had a visual force page containing a hyperlink to navigate to the standard page of the object in one of our projects. For navigating to the standard salesforce page, we created the URL of the standard page which included the recorded (ID) of the tuple. We were able to successfully navigate to that page… Read More: Number of records to show in Related List »
The Winter’14 release of Salesforce provides some new features and enhancements. One of them is the enhanced search on lookups. In the Summer’13 version of Salesforce, it was only possible to search something using the name field. The lookup search window in Summer’13 is as shown below – New Stuff: Set the click event of button… Read More: Lookup Search for all fields in Salesforce »
Sometime ago we had a client requirement wherein we had to perform a button click operation when the user presses the enter button on a visual force page. In a normal visualforce page, there is no specific way to define a button to be pressed while pressing the enter key. New Stuff: SOQL Query on combination… Read More: Set the click event of button on Enter in Visualforce… »
Few days back, we had a requirement in one of our projects wherein we needed to list the records based on summation of two fields of an object. We tried to use SOQL query to filter the records, but we found that SOQL query of salesforce natively does not allow the arithmetic operation of two… Read More: SOQL Query on a combination of two fields »
In one of our last posts “PDF Export in Salesforce“, we described how to download data in PDF format in Salesforce. Now we will be describing how to download data in excel format as promised in our previous blog. On the same pattern as PDF; contentType=”application/vnd.ms-excel#Export.xls” is the tag used to download the salesforce page… Read More: Excel Export in Salesforce »
